Header

Volg ons

Footer

Are you having a giraffe?

Having a giraffe is a cockney expression for joking, having a laugh. And one will indeed laugh or at least smile while seeing the new advertisement campaign launched last week across Belgium by AG Insurance featuring 4 giraffes rollerblading in a city with the tag line “Don’t wait for another life. Live this one to the fullest with AG” (you can click here to watch the ad). This campaign, which aims to be seen by over 80% of the Belgian population, should further increase the brand awareness of AG Insurance who is a clear market leader totaling no less than 22% market share in its domestic market.

But European investors were not in a laughing mood last week as, despite a promising start on Monday, the markets declined for the third consecutive week. On Tuesday bank stocks tumbled as Giuseppe Conte’s political agenda in Italy unnerved investors and as a consequence the Stoxx 600 Banks lost 1.7% on the day. On Wednesday, it was the insurance sector’s turn to take a hit that could be linked to Amazon as the company was reported considering entering the home insurance business. Within half an hour after the news broke, almost all European insurance stocks went down and, while the Stoxx 600 closed the day flat, its Insurance segment ended 0.53% in the red. Then on Friday the markets were under pressure as trade tensions increased ahead of the G7 summit.

As a result, by the end of the week, the Euro Stoxx 50 and the BEL20 had lost respectively 0.2% and 1.0%, while Ageas’ share declined 1.2% in line with the Stoxx 600 Insurance (-1.3%).

Cookies on AGEAS websites

Manage your preferences

We use cookies to optimise your user experience, offer you personalised information based on your interests, and allow you to share and interact with your social media contacts and watch videos directly on our websites.

This page provides information about the nature of the cookies that may be used on AGEAS websites. Indicate below if you accept all types of cookies or if you wish to adjust your preferences.

We use technical and functional cookies to remember choices and selections that you have made during previous visits. They prevent you from having to set your preferences again every time.Without these cookies, some (parts of) our sites may not work (properly) and (some of the) services you have asked for may not be able to be provided. In addition, we use anonymized analytical cookies to keep track on how you and other users browse our websites to help us creating better flows, producing more interesting content, etc.

These analytical cookies do not store any personal information. For an overview of the cookies belonging to this category, consult our Cookie Policy.

To opt-out from these cookies, you can always disable them in your browser settings. Be aware that some functionalities of our websites may not function properly. For information on how to set up your browser preferences, please refer to the documentation of the manufacturer of your browser.

JaNee

Enable customer profiling

To make your experience on our websites and our advertisements for our products as relevant as possible, we track your browsing and click behavior and incorporate it in your customer profile.

These cookies monitor your click and surfing behavior on our sites (e.g. the visited pages, articles viewed or clicked on,...) and enable us to personalize the touchpoints that you have with our brands. The content and advertising of our products you see on our sites and in any other advertisement will be matched with your needs, interests and preferences.

These cookies will not be used to present you advertisements regarding products and services offered by third parties. For an overview of the cookies belonging to this category, consult our Cookie Policy.

JaNee

Share data with third parties

Do you accept that AGEAS websites use cookies offered by third parties which enable the sharing of your data with third parties?

To allow you to share and interact on social media or see videos from our websites, we make use of plug-ins offered by third parties. These plug-ins are fully controlled by third parties and might be used to collect data and information on your browsing behavior for direct marketing purposes, analytics or market research by such third parties, even if you do not use these functionalities but merely visit our websites. AGEAS has no control on how these third parties manage these cookies and the data collected through these cookies.

We therefore recommend that you read the privacy notice and cookie policy of these third parties to know more about how these third parties use your personal data and cookies. For an overview of the cookies belonging to this category, consult our Cookie Policy.